Articles tagged: disease prevention

• November 2020 Space medicine and terrestrial health care

  ... environmental protection. Thus space medicine has anticipated the increasingly evolving shift in emphasis from disease treatment to disease prevention. Progress in space medicine is now at the forefront of so-called ‘healthy man medicine’, with the...

  • astronaut health
  • disease prevention
  • nosology
  • Space medicine
  Authors: Anna R Kussmaul     Mark S Belakovskiy     Oleg Orlov    
• April 2021 Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space

  ... but Earth observation capabilities are on a sharp upwards curve, so it’s not inconceivable that the landscape of vector-borne disease prevention could look very different in the not-too-distant future. In the short term, if this system goes...

  • D-MOSS
  • Dengue fever
  • Dengue MOdel forecasting Satellite-based System
  • Earth observation data
  • UKSA International Partnership Programme
  Authors: Gina Tsarouchi